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The Alabama legislature has sent the Constitutional Carry bill (permitless carry), HB272, as amended by the Senate, to Governor Ivey at 3:05 p.m. on March 10, 2022. The bill from the Senate was accepted by the House with a vote of 70 to 29. The Senate concurred 24 to 6.This correspondent expects Governor Ivey to sign the bill, making Alabama the 22, 23, or 24th state to restore Constitutional carry.Governor Ivey has a primary coming up on May 24, 2022. With a vote in the house of 70%, and in the Senate of 80%, it would be foolish for Governor...

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" "That," of course, refers to John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln while he was watching the popular play, "Our American Cousin," at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. The joke, whose origin is uncertain, satirizes people who miss the point because they equate commonplace occurrences and transformational events. Alas, Americans who are considering putting Donald Trump back in the White House in 2024 have fallen prey to the same false equivalence. Paul Boyer, who represents a swing district north of Phoenix in the Arizona...

Democrats are willing to act to end freedom in America and can be stopped only by Americans who are willing to put constitutional principles into action. COVID-19 plandemic politicians falsely promised freedom and safety, while increasingly suffocating people with mandates and restrictions, but Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis fought back despite an endless barrage of criticism. And significantly, he proved that his policies worked. Could he be just as tough in defending the U.S. Constitution? Yes. The media attacked Governor DeSantis for his “irresponsible policies.” The Biden administration’s Fauciism tried desperately to force vaccinations on people, including threatening their livelihoods. Other...

More than two weeks into a war he expected to dominate in two days, Vladimir Putin is projecting anger, frustration at his military’s failures and a willingness to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine, in the assessment of U.S. intelligence officials. Officials in recent days have publicly said they’re worried the Russian president will escalate the conflict to try to break Ukraine’s resistance. Russia still holds overwhelming military advantages and can bombard the country for weeks more. And while the rest of the world reacts to horrific images of the war he started, Putin remains insulated from domestic...

There will be growth in the spring, to cite once again Chauncey Gardiner, the supposed savant in the 1979 satire Being There, who actually was Chance, the gardener. Chauncey’s dimwitted utterances somehow were taken as incredibly profound by the powerful Washington elite, and through a series of improbable events, he would become the president’s key adviser on how to cure the nation’s ailing economy. The real presidents in that era wouldn’t have done any worse by listening to Chauncey rather than to their actual advisers. Back in the fall of 1974, the Ford administration assembled an all-day conference on solutions...

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How much damage and carnage could have been avoided if COVID hadn’t been politicized? History will judge this era harshly, and deservedly so. From the beginning of COVID two years ago, health authorities and the media have been preaching “follow the science,” but what they don’t say is that it’s not medical science that they are following but instead political science. How else does one explain sudden new rules and recommendations, contradicting past “settled science,” regarding everything from natural immunity and off label therapeutics to the futility of masks and social distancing. It seems that overnight the science changed with...

Pete Jenkins, 54, a contractor who’s lived in Wyoming for three decades, said he identifies personally as a Democrat — he did not vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 — but is registered as a Republican just to have some influence in Wyoming politics. He said he intends to vote for Cheney — and has heard from lots of other Democrats planning to do the same. “I think it’s a fairly popular thing,” he said of the party-switchers-for-Cheney movement. Cheney needs as many of them as she can get. snip A progressive organizer who helped get the Democratic vote...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are openly talking up her White House prospects. More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning to take shape among at least three fierce Republican critics of former President Donald Trump to determine who is best positioned to occupy the anti-Trump lane in 2024. Their apparent willingness to run — even if Trump does, as is widely expected — represents...

Children have become targets because many people in the LGBTQ movement define themselves by their sexual orientation. Rather than their sexuality being a part of their identity, it is their complete identity, and they feel insecure about it. Instead of getting help, they feel obsessed with gaining approval, and when approval is not given, they go after children and try to sexualize them. This behavior is sexual abuse. Some very interesting observations about grooming children were made on Sunny Lohmann’s podcast on March 10, 2022. Sunny said everyone she knows who is confused about their sexuality is messed up, is...

A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, The Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomizing the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent. The woman was rushed to another hospital, yet closer to the frontline, where doctors labored to keep her alive. Realizing she was losing her baby, medics said, she cried out to them, “Kill me now!” Surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip detached. Medics delivered...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are openly talking up her White House prospects.More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning to take shape among at least three fierce Republican critics of former President Donald Trump to determine who is best positioned to occupy the anti-Trump lane in 2024.Their apparent willingness to run — even if Trump does, as is widely expected...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, said Monday that he was in Ukraine alongside Russian forces who are leading an offensive in the country. Kadyrov...posted a video on Telegram of himself in military uniform studying plans around a table with soldiers in a room. He said in a message that the video had been shot at Hostomel, an airfield near Kyiv....

Just over a week ago I met a group of young men who had volunteered at a centre in Kyiv to fight for Ukraine. Most of them were in their late teens, not long out of school. They told me that after three days' basic training they would head for the front line - or very close to it. Some of them were wearing knee pads that looked too small, as if they had come with skateboards on their 12th birthdays. A few had sleeping bags. One had a yoga mat. When they waited outside for the bus that was...

The mayors of New York City and Washington, DC urged their cities’ homeless populations to seek shelter Sunday as a “cold-blooded killer” who had shot at least five vagrants remained on the loose. A lone gunman is suspected of targeting sleeping homeless men in a series of shootings in DC and the Big Apple this month that has so far left two men dead and three others wounded. New York Mayor Eric Adams and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were coordinating with federal authorities to investigate the crimes before he strikes again.

Russian prosecutors warned Western companies that criticism of Moscow's war on Ukraine could lead to arrests of corporate leaders or seizure of assets in the country. Companies that received the warning included Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, IBM and Yum Brands, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. The threats came in the form of calls, letters and visits threatening to take legal action....

For the past five years, South Korea’s foreign policy decisions have been shaped with one goal in mind: peace with North Korea. Now, under an incoming conservative president, Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea is poised to make a hawkish about-face that would reshape its relationship with not only North Korea but also the United States, China, Japan and nations beyond. Best Egg® Personal Loans - Fixed APRs As Low As 5.99% Ad Ad www.bestegg.com/Apply-Now/Loans Best Egg® Personal Loans - Fixed APRs As Low As 5.99% The return of conservative rule in South Korea comes as Seoul harbors growing ambitions to be...

As Western sanctions on Moscow mount following its invasion of Ukraine, Chinese media tells a story to domestic readers that avoids blaming Russia and portrays sympathy for President Vladimir Putin's perspective. Beijing has refused to support nor condemn its close ally Moscow, while blaming the United States and the "eastward expansion" of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for worsening tensions. It is a view that reverberates across state newspapers and television - as well as social media - in China's tightly controlled news environment.

WORLD WAR TENSIONS Russia ‘asks China for HELP with Ukraine invasion’ US officials say as fears conflict will spiral into WW3 grow Britta Zeltmann 1:26, 14 Mar 2022 Updated: 8:05, 14 Mar 2022 RUSSIA reportedly asked China for HELP after it invaded Ukraine last month - prompting fears for World War Three to mount. Vladimir Putin's side is believed to have asked Chinese president Xi Jinping for both military equipment and support after its February 24 invasion. Several U.S. officials have since said Beijing could undermine Western efforts to help Ukraine, the New York Times reports. And U.S. National Security...

The Russian occupied city of Melitpol has a new mayor who insists more Russian TV channels be broadcast through the Ukraine oblast for what she says is a need for "more reliable information" about the Russia-Ukraine war that is closing on 20 days now. Halyna Danylchenko was installed as the "acting mayor" of Melitopol after former Mayor Ivan Fyodorov was kidnapped by Russian forces...Danylchenko has stated that people in her region should refrain from taking "extremist actions" against occupying Russian forces...